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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mt. 4/12-23 |
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| Background: Galilee was the "wild west" of Palestine,
a rough, unruly place with bandits and revolutionaries wandering about and a population
which was considered by the religious elite in Jerusalem to be uncouth and semi-literate
religiously and infected by the paganism of the area. It was called the "Galilee of
the Gentiles" because there was a large population of Hellenistic pagans mixed in
with the Jews who had only recently begun to resettle a land which had been devastated by
earlier wars. A rough parallel to what Jesus did when he walked along the lakeside and
summoned his disciples would be if he had walked down the pain street of Tombstone Arizona
and selected the odd cowboy and merchant and drifter for his band. He certainly did not
search for the best and the brightest of his time, though he probably knew of what the men
would be capable in years ahead. There are, perhaps, more potentially great men (in the
world) than humankind recognizes. |
read the padre |
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Story: One upon a time a group of boys in their late teens swarmed out on the basketball court on a Sunday in January when the temperature had risen to fifty degrees, warm enough to play basketball, right? In t shirts, right? Anyway the outcome of their games was often determined by the flip of the coin which decided who would have first chance of choosing sides. The one who lost got the second and third choice and so on. It was supposed to be fair but it was also BORING. So this particular day, the kid that had the first choice picked the worst player in the crowd. Of course his opponent choose the two best players. Then our hero choose the second and third worst until he had chosen the four worst players. These guys think they’re hot stuff (not his exact word!) he send to his bedraggled team mates. They think they’re going to mop up the court with us. Lets teach them a lesson. Well, the other guys were so over confident that they missed their shots and the poor team beat them 21-10. See, the winning captain whispered to the losing captain, I am so good I can win with inferior players. So there too. Did Jesus do the same thing?
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